ESRI Acquires Geoloqi

Geoloqi has developed a platform for developers to add location-based features to their apps, while Esri provides online mapping solutions for developers and geographic intelligence for businesses and governments. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

In the future, Geoloqi products and services will be integrated into ArcGIS online and be available through a new developer-friendly pricing model similar to the existing Geoloqi model. The intent is to continue to improve products and services as they are rolled into the new combined platform.

In other news, OpenStreetMap held their State of the Map conference in Portland last weekend. It brought together people who care about advancing the world’s largest free community map resource. The Knight Foundation recently awarded a $575,000 grant to the MapBox team to make it easier to add and edit data, get data out of OSM and into maps, and coordinate with the the OSM community.

WhereCampPDX a free, volunteer-created unconference happened simultaneously in Portland this weekend. WhereCampPDX organizers worked closely with SOTM organizers to avoid overlap and be as complimentary as can be.

This year’s keynote address for WhereCampPDX5 was given by Dr. Sean Gorman, Chief Strategist for ESRI’s DC Development Center. Dr. Gorman is a researcher and practitioner in the field of data science with a specialty in location based analytics. Previously he was the founder of GeoIQ, which was subsequently acquired by ESRI.